Ed Sheeran squints against the sunshine as he performs at Bite of Las Vegas held at Desert Breeze Park on Saturday afternoon (September 29).

The 21-year-old British musician recently chatted with MTV and opened up about the upcoming 2012 EMA Awards — where he’s nominated.

“The EMA kind of seems like quite the American-leaning awards, even though it’s [European] Music Awards. It’s always kind of American-leaning, and obviously there’s the U.K. and Ireland. I don’t know. I was a bit surprised to be in that. It should be cool. It’s public vote, though,” he shared.

Ed added, “So One Direction‘s going to pick that up, ’cause anything’s that public vote with One Direction, with them, they’re going to win. Taylor [Swift's] got like six though, right?